It's been a while since I looked at the backup files, but I think the zip files had paths relative to the home folder for all of the contained files. I think you could have just unzipped them all manually. Anyway, as you've said a dozen times now, it doesn't matter. --Paul On 8/7/07, Tim <tim at samoff.com> wrote: > > > James, > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:32:55 -0700 > From: James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org> > Subject: Re: Arg! My backup doesn't work!!! > To: maemo-users at maemo.org > Message-ID: <200708070032.55412.james at linuxrebel.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > [snip] > > Two possibles I can think of > > 1. switch the two cards (if you have an n800) I've found that doing this > suddenly makes some things "appear" (this worked when I made the mistake of > trying to transfer too much data via scp and "lost" the drive) > > 2. pull the card and use an external USB reader to read the data off . > Re-format it and put the data back on. (This worked on my 770 one time) > > James > > > > > I'm wondering if I didn't explain the issue adequately... Everything on the > card was fine. The data saved, the card was usable, etc. > > What happened was that when I made the backup, for some reason, the > backup.metadata file was not created properly. All of the backup Zip files > were just fine (I was able to decomress them and retrieve some of my media > and document data). But, the Backup/Restore app would not recognize that a > backup had been made because the backup.metadata file was completely empty > (i.e., just a blank document with no XML content). > > I was wondering if there was a way to recreacte the metadata file in order > that the BackupRestore app would see it... I couldn't find a way to easily > know all of the filecounts, etc. that are contained in that file, though. > > In any case, it's too late to try anything, as it's been a month or so since > all of this happened. So, I'll just have to report back if it ever happens > again. > > Thanks, > > Tim > > --- > Weblog ~ http://tim.samoff.com > Baby Blog ~ http://kc.samoff.com > Photography ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/timsamoff > Music ~ http://www.adkoc.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > >
